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The Tet Offensive: The Vietnamese people turn the tide of history
the press had a field day. Pictures of US civilian staff helping to dislodge enemy guerrillas, ... managed to retake most of Saigon within days, the mainly Chinese area of Cholon was occupied by NLF and ... within hours on January 31. According to Welsh, "By the afternoon of that first day, the NVA/VC had ...
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The West's terror hypocrisy: who is the biggest threat?
terrorism. Paris is not the only place to be hit in recent days by the wave of ISIS attacks. The day before, ... a political rally in Ankara with a body count similar to the Paris attacks. However, survivors of this attack ... invasion- and a religious-sectarian civil war instigated by the US to thwart a united anti-occupation ...
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invasion of Kuwait by Iraq so offended peace-loving US imperialism that its bombers just had to go in and ... to Belmore park. ISO members continued to push towards the police lines. The bulk of the rally was ... up and suggest that the rally march to the ALP offices. This proceeded, with no more than 80 students ...
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How Australia is screwing East Timor
peaked with mass demonstrations on March 22. Thousands of people rallied around the country, with more ... diplomatic cable that Australia should support Indonesia's impending invasion of East Timor. He argued ... Justice (ICJ). To this day, Witness K remains under investigation and denied their passport. The ICJ ...
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Struggle in the Obama-era: what next?
Association Local 1422, Charleston, South Carolina Election day has been phenomenal in South Carolina. Among ... candidate for having voted against the invasion of Iraq and for promising a progressive withdrawal of troops ... overnight. On the contrary, McCain/Palin rallies drew racists by the thousands, who were then emboldened by ...
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UNITED STATES: Bush's Iraq gamble unravels
invasion of Iraq has turned into a political debacle that could, as an editorial in the October 5 New York ... in September: "This looks like a modern day crusade not to free an oppressed people or to rid ... One in 12 children suffers from malnutrition. Up to 20 innocent Iraqi civilians each day are now ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
I went to the NOWSA conference for women students in June. On the second day I stood up and declared that ... last day of the conference where, I later found out through 麻豆传媒 Weekly, the women-only policy ... invasion of multi-billion dollar health care entrepreneurs into the hospital and health care system is ...
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the union on a day-to-day basis, which can only be compared to McVey, who held the comparable ... the reality of that protest than 麻豆传媒 Weekly did. Why was there no mention that at this rally as ... patriots, engaged in a war of resistance against an invading army. That invasion has two purposes, namely to ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
agree that our rallies should try "to mobilise the broad mass of students, unemployed people and ... Democracy" for that wonderful day for women, August 9th, 1956 when 20 000 women of all races, from all parts ... Day. In the prophetic words of Helen Joseph, writing in the dark days of 1980, this day is "even ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
containers (costing $25 per day) piled up at Dili wharf which they are unable to open because the corrupt ... what or dob whom, but no hoax calls about Muslims please. The 500 calls on the first day were a waste ... important issues of the day many of the old differences have become less of an impediment to collaboration. ...
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The Zapatista uprising: twenty years on
became a one-party state paying lip service at orchestrated rallies to the ideals of popular sovereignty, ... 1, 1994, the same day NAFTA became law, a guerrilla force made up of a few thousand indigenous Mayan ... sympathy felt by ordinary Mexicans for the Zapatista cause has prevented a full-scale invasion of Mayan ...
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Latin America in revolt: Continent defies USA
date 鈥 not for what happened, but for what didn't. On that day, the Free Trade Area of the ... invasion, assassination, propaganda bombardment and economic terrorism 鈥 the Cuban government led by Fidel ... rally or occupy until there is change, their strength and development varies. However, the concessions ...
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AFGHANISTAN: Repression and RAWA
of war and struggle. Even before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Meena, a committed feminist, ... Afghanistan itself. RAWA also holds rallies, protests and demonstrations in Pakistan to draw attention to the ... shops to pray five times a day, they may be imprisoned. This is not Islam. Islam clearly says women can ...
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Zairean rebels urge overthrow of Mobutu
waged. Since then Kabila has attempted to rally opposition to the Mobutu regime. Pressed by journalists ... claimed that the fall of eastern Zaire followed an invasion by up to 10,000 troops from Rwanda, Burundi ... poured at least US$1 million a day into keeping the camps in eastern Zaire functioning. Relief agencies ...
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John Pilger: Provoking nuclear war by media
investigate Nato's crimes. This was the model for Washington's subsequent invasions of Afghanistan, ... February 2003, the day after Blair and Bush had set fire to Iraq, the BBC's political editor, Andrew ... 鈥渂ringing good鈥 runs deep in western establishment journalism. It ensures that the present-day catastrophe ...
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Cuba: How the workers and peasants made the revolution
dictatorship within the unions. Students held numerous rallies and demonstrations throughout the years of ... mobilisations. On July 16, Castro resigned as prime minister. Next day, he went on TV and accused Urrutia of ... enterprises that were expropriated on one day in October of 1960? The National Revolutionary Militias. ...
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KOREA: US war drive: is North Korea next?
a field day accusing Bush of going soft on Kim Jong-Il's Stalinist regime while beating down on the ... political and military preparations for an invasion of Iraq. However, plans for a US military assault on ... peninsula. Ten days later, the North Korea signed a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy ...
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Write On: Letters to 麻豆传媒 Weekly
Kuwait and its allies after the 1990 invasion. A 1950 General Assembly resolution (377) states that if ... utter invention. My expressed view was clear and consistent: while sympathetic to the rallies, and ... supportive of student engagement in the debate, I could not encourage students to join a day-long strike at ...
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Washington's war on democracy
reasonable prices and keeping the region secure from threat or invasion". Preserving "access to ... Iraqi-run government by manipulating people to rally around their clerics and buying loyalty with food, ... Empire" in his 1982 speech to Britain's House of Commons. "President Reagan said that the day of ...
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Lessons of the 1968 revolt
"anti-imperialist study days" at Nanterre. Again, the dean panicked, closing down the campus. On May 3, ... 3 May, following the police invasion of the Sorbonne, had a shattering effect on adolescents. In many ... called an all-day strike in all Paris lycees and a teenage force, some 8,000 to 9,000 strong, marched to ...